transom rebuild help

[Richie Rich]

My V has a plate on the inside where the motor is attached. It was put on by the shop where the previous owner had his boat maintained. The core is still ok, so I'm thinking there was a little flex issue. And its a 150 motor.

Anyway, if you're thinking about beefing it up at the bolt area and tabbing the corners, you might as well just run another sheet across the whole thing and come around the corners and be done with it....sanding a flat, wide area like that won't take much more time with a ROS and 80 grit.

And an additional tank?? You can probably fit one but you're getting to the "slim" area of the boat...not sure you'll have the room for 30 gallons...that's also another 240lbs of weight sloshing around the nose of the boat....not sure what that will do the the boats handling and balance...maybe someone else has done this already and has some feedback on how it went.